COVID-19

How does it compare?


Erin Wright

Confirmed Cases (US)

Influenza1

Is the trend of cumulative confirmed COVID-192 cases really higher than that of Influenza?

Cause of Death (US)

How does the reported COVID-19 data compare to other casues of death?3

Consideration must be given to the fact that COVID-19 data only represents a portion of a year whereas the other casuses have all data from 2018 included. Data was adjusted to represent rates per 100,000 population4. To do this the total number of deaths was divided by the number of groups of 100,000 persons present in the population using the 2018 US population estimate of 327274411.

Since COVID-19 has been accumulating over less than a year, what if we calculate the death rate using both population and days accumulating? So if we take the death rate calculated above then multiply by the fraction of a year represented by the data, it might be closer to a far comparison;for other than COVID-19 this would be just 1, for COVID-19 this would be 365 divided by virus days passed.

Locations

Where was the first report in each country?

Where did it spread

This gets a little busy, but is still very neat to look at; if we take the first location the virus is known to have landed (confirmed cases) in each country, and follow it country:country we get this:

How fast did it spread?

Day of Virus represents the first day a reported case is docuemnted for each country listed.

Country Populations

How does the reported COVID-19 data compare across the globe?

When taking into account the overall population of each of the following countries, what is the impact for each?5.

What about age?6